(A)The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
    but (B)the name of the wicked will rot.

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For the righteous will (A)never be moved;
    (B)he will be remembered forever.

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48 for (A)he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
    For behold, from now on all generations (B)will call me blessed;

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And truly, I say to you, wherever (A)the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told (B)in memory of her.”

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13 May his (A)posterity be cut off;
    may his (B)name be blotted out in the second generation!

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16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

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15 (A)Let them be before the Lord continually,
    that he may (B)cut off the memory of them from the earth!

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You have (A)rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
    you have (B)blotted out their name forever and ever.
The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

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17 His (A)memory perishes from the earth,
    and he has no name in the street.

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34 (A)For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake (B)and for the sake of my servant David.”

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36 Yet to his son (A)I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have (B)a lamp before me in Jerusalem, (C)the city where I have chosen to put my name.

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Those Who Fear God Will Do Well

10 Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of (A)the holy place and were (B)praised[a] in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts forgotten
  2. Ecclesiastes 8:10 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath”; also twice in verse 14 (see note on 1:2)

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